Visual Studies

Papers
(The median citation count of Visual Studies is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Fabricating Lureland: A history of the imagination and memory of Peacehaven, a speculative interwar garden city development by the sea11
With images in mind, 20229
What is an Image? Roundtable transcription, International Visual Sociology Association annual conference, 16 September 20227
Oak tree, gum tree: screen collaborations across time zones, 20227
The image is a cure7
The techno-politics of programming vision7
Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil Social Fabric: Art and Activism in Contemporary Brazil edited by Maria Emilia F6
Visual Studies X The Open Eye Gallery: interview with Open Eye Director Sarah Fisher and Curator Mariama Attah6
Untitled (Maestra) 20226
‘Let us teach our children’: Online racism and everyday far-right ideologies on TikTok5
Walker Evans: No politics5
Past caring: archive, affect, and whiteness in digital colourisation4
Nervous systems: Art, systems, and politics since the 1960s4
The Aesthetics of Global Protest; Global Activism and Art and Conflict in the 21st Century4
Three stories of one truth? Visual framing of AP, CNN & FOX news Instagram coverage of the 2020 US presidential candidates4
The crisis of ugliness: From cubism to pop-art4
Smells: A cultural history of odours in early modern times3
The Astronomer's Chair: A Visual and Cultural History3
Images among images: a map scholar response3
Response to questionnaire: visual studies now3
Re-staging American triumph as American carnage3
Emoji and social media paralanguage3
The eyes of scallops and the creativity of submarine animals: convergence and conflict in science, philosophy and art3
Embodying parkour’s visual subculture: ethos, style and the emergence of a visual habitus3
Response to the ‘visual studies now’ questionnaire for Visual Studies3
The experience of visuality and socially engaged practice3
Cosmopolitics of the camera: Albert Kahn’s archives of the planet3
No selfies: the social world of autistic male adults as depicted in their everyday photographic practices3
The future of visual studies live roundtable. International Visual Sociology Association 40th annual conference, 7 July 20213
Human Flow: Stories from the Global Refugee Crisis and How Media and Conflicts Make Migrants3
The spectacle of demonstration: visual representation of political imagination during the coronavirus crisis2
A visual essay of everyday life at the Finnish-Russian border after (and before?) the Iron Curtain2
‘I went there to live’: A case-study of Šarūnas Bartas’s Tofalaria and Few of Us2
Remembering and forgetting: using photographs as social artefacts in an aged care setting2
COVID diaries: quotidian snapshots of life during the pandemic2
Monitoring North Korea: a visual autoethnography of humanitarian-aid practices2
Social semiotic analysis of photographic portrayals of Iranian elders on websites2
Embracing new paths in visual research facilitation: opportunities, tensions & ethical considerations2
The influence of iconography and tempera painting techniques on the Chinese school of art2
The church of skinny: autoethnographic interpretations of eating disorder experiences2
Tidepools: using film-based ethnography to explore Black and Latino students' experience of community college2
Building culture: constructing visual continuity in Hangzhou before G202
Citizens’ photography: a comparative analysis2
The Routledge companion to art and disability2
Visualising the iconography of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid heroes and heroines in Tshwane (Pretoria), South Africa2
Stencil in the centre of Athens2
Semantic macro-structures and macro-rules in visual discourse processing2
A photographic essay on socio-economic organisation – temporary shelters in Kelowna, British Columbia (Canada)2
The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access The architecture of disability: buildings, cities, and landscapes beyond access by David 2
The dual vehicle of politics and art: an exploration of Chinese animation in the ‘Seventeen Years’ period (1949–1966)2
Breathing aesthetics2
Visualising gendered space and informality: a photo essay2
Earthquakes, communities and heritage: Telling stories of resilience through co-designed immersive media2
From pages to posts: the evolution of memory-making from scrapbooking to Instagram2
Syrian refugees’ vision for quality education in a Lebanese public school: a participatory visual research1
Decoding the symbolic storm fuelling Greek far-right politics: a visual essay1
Collaboratively videoing mobile activities1
‘What do we see when we look at people on the move’? A visual intervention into civil sphere and symbolic boundary theory1
Signs of change: community, collective action, and gentrification in Brooklyn, New York1
Tracking transitions: an ethnographic visual study of the manual sand miners in Bihar, India1
Response to questionnaire: visual studies now1
Questionnaire: visual studies now1
The Routledge international handbook of ethnographic film and video1
Protecting the future ‘Us’: a rhetoric-performative multimodal analysis of the polarising far-right YouTube campaign videos in Finland1
Digital Tarkovsky1
Media and conflict, co-constitutive reflecting practices1
Ethnograglimpses: Notes on the 10th edition of the Ethnografilm festival in Paris1
Naked modernisation: the rise and fall of the erotic humour magazines in 1930s Turkey1
What is an image in the digital age?1
Dolors project: art-based polyethnography evoking contemporary rural mothering through photography, dance and chapbooks1
New species in the Mediterranean: a visual essay on human impact on biodiversity1
Degenerate ecocinema: indexing entropy with drones1
Editorial1
The business of postcolonial immigration: marketing of immigration services in Punjab, India1
Likeness in the age of new media: on the endless mutability of images1
A room of your own: photographs of situations of well-being taken by patients suffering from a stress-related illness1
The unlimited joy, ‘once you start you can’t stop’: masculinity in domestic technology commercials in Turkey1
Looking into Visual Studies1
Miao traditional patterns: the origins and design transformation1
Familia, 20181
Reconfiguring spaces in FARC’s demobilisation camps: the cases of Tierra Grata and Pondores, Colombia1
Panoptical forms in thriller films1
Cold War Camera1
Action camera: First person perspective or hybrid in motion?1
Editorial1
‘DON’T TOUCH ANYTHING’: tactility, COVID-19, and graphic medicine1
Community as Rebellion: A Syllabus for Surviving Academia as a Woman of Color1
From making visible to hiding. Visual representations of financial markets as tools of manipulation and active and living agents1
No heritage found on map: the vanishing villages of Hong Kong1
‘Undressing the Icon/Visualizing the habitus.’ Series 1: Jean-François Clervoy (ESA/NASA)1
The semiotic remediation of hardtack biscuits during World War One1
Building material languages of trauma: in conversation with Laura Magnusson1
(W)ARCHIVES: Archival imaginaries, war, and contemporary art1
Lewis Carroll: photography on the move; Singular images, failed copies: William Henry Fox Talbot and the early photograph1
Epidemics, public health workers, and ‘heroism’ in cinematic perspective1
Graphic medicine’s golden age?1
CODA: visual studies now1
Sporting blackness: Race, embodiment, and critical muscle memory on screen1
Resilient rebound: a visual essay on materials science researchers confronting plastic pollution in the post-COVID-19 era1
Visuality and Parrēsia : Ai Weiwei’s countervisual re-enactment of Alan Kurdi’s image1
The street photography of Garry Winogrand1
Counter narrative of President Buhari’s narrative on Nigerian youths with visual images and texts on Facebook1
A theory of assembly: From museums to memes1
Quiet Spaces: Public Places – visual representation of vulnerable identities1
Wake up, this is Joburg1
Visual culture studies: twenty years later1
The patchwork method: on David Redmon and Ashley Sabin1
Unfolding the entangled geosemiotics of technologically-mediated gated communities:Mountain View’s (2021) advertisement as a case study1
When the cannons roar, comics panels fall silent: on silent representations of traumatic events in Israeli comics and graphic novels1
Looking Through Images. A Phenomenology of Visual Media0
Romaphobia and mainstreaming of nativism: visual representations of Roma during the Brexit referendum in the UK0
Kodachrome and the fantasy of colourisation or what time is there?0
Border tunnels: a media theory of the U.S.-Mexico underground0
Affective atmospheres in Macau: from the sublime to the uncanny0
The place of poetics within documentary filmmaking: The art of fact0
Let Dr Ai’s story flee: a minor practice against China’s internet censorship during the COVID-19 pandemic0
Visual studies now0
Being specific about ‘digital images’0
What can voice do? Combining narrative methods and participant-produced photography to explore contemporary cancer survivorship0
Documentary photography as vocation: reflecting on Frank Cancian’s contribution to visual studies0
From canvas to cyberspace: contemporary Tibetan art and the digital Tibetan identity landscape0
Commentary for Visual Studies0
‘Through my eyes’: feminist self-portraits of Osteogenesis Imperfecta as arts-based knowledge translation0
Unnatural nature – visual, spatial, and temporal contexts controlling our air0
‘I don’t want to see anymore.’0
The 360 diary method in experiential education: using social media as a complementary method to interviews and audio diaries0
#EverydayNile Correspondences0
Howard S. Becker and visual sociology0
Cross-cultural visual communication at the Wanchin Church in Taiwan0
Editorial0
Film ethnography and critical consciousness: exploring a community-based action research methodology for Freirean transformation0
Finding the local (meta)picture0
Tracks and traces: Exploring the world of graffiti writing through visual methods0
Will I ever be good enough?0
Framing urbanities: invisible/visible urban assemblages0
Correction0
The return of the uncanny: artificial intelligence and estranged futures0
Altered spaces: new ways of seeing and envisioning nature with Minecraft0
Interconnectedness, place and growth: a visual essay on transformative learning0
Story Poles (Solana Beach, California), 20210
Coral empire: underwater oceans, colonial tropics, visual modernity0
Pygmalion in the archive: the mythic desires of colourisation0
Therapeutic aesthetics: Performative encounters in moving image artworks0
The social life of private thoughts0
Corona de Flores; some visual issues of coronavirus0
A feminist rewriting of cartoon captions0
Building internal reputation in stigmatised neighbourhoods: the use of remote participatory photo mapping0
Breaking the frame: evolving practices of first-generation photo-elicitation researchers0
Contemplating ‘visual studies’ as an emerging transdisciplinary endeavour0
Beyond the visuality of Western architecture. The Chinese home from inward haven to outward representation0
Chornobyl visual lexicon: exploring the visual framing of toxic heritage from the point of view of participatory culture0
Creating counter-landscapes: art-based research in two logistics parks in Frankfurt am Main and Kassel (Germany)0
Visual arts: imagining ashanzhaicity in twenty-first century China0
Sound, image, silence: Art and the aural imagination in the Atlantic world0
Art Monsters: Unruly Bodies in Feminist Art0
Images of displaced memories: documentation, intervention, and the ethics and aesthetics of seeing0
The time of the landscape: On the origins of the aesthetic revolution0
Virtual identity construction in translanguaging spaces: unveiling the semiotic power of emojis in Lil Miquela 's Instagram posts0
A beautiful ghetto0
Remote justice: a visual essay on the response of the Dutch justice system to the COVID-19 pandemic0
The Oxford handbook of communist visual cultures0
‘How I edit my Instagram images’: investigating skilled vision in the work of YouTube’s lifestyle-content creators0
Wars in colour. Critical perspectives on digital colourisation in historical documentaries0
Correction0
A visual exploration of resource curse in East Kalimantan0
Questionnaire: visual studies now0
In/human hues: colourisation between photography and film0
Visual depictions of the Polish–German border: a quantitative analysis of visual dimension of bordering practices0
Facilitating a ‘virtual space’ for social change during the COVID-19 pandemic: working with high-risk population using an arts-informed method0
A critical assessment of the Russian-language literature in the field of visual culture0
Blackboard voices0
Response to questionnaire: visual studies now0
Visual studies questionnaire: how do you engage with the visual, and what is its importance in the twenty-first century?0
Empty homes: filming homeownership in rapidly urbanising China0
Visualizing everydayness, questioning interstitiality0
Editorial0
Topologies of air Topologies of air by Shona Illingworthedited by Anthony DowneyToronto: The Power Plant and London: Sternberg Press, 0
Remembering Howie0
Portfolio implementation for self-reflection and professional growth of students in the arts0
Warao queen: challenging beauty in Venezuela – the Rachel Tanur Memorial Prize for Visual Sociology 20200
Thinking about the special issue as a scholarly format0
Spaces in between: using the Zwischenraum to explore the archiving practices of young expats in Berlin0
Bounding an archiving: assessing the relative completeness of the Jacques Toussele archive using pattern-matching and face-recognition0
Visual methods and migration: methodological advantages using documentary in the field0
Correction0
Seeing South Asia: visuals beyond borders0
Participating and observing: Howie up close0
Preserving the ephemeral: A visual typology of augmented reality filters on Instagram0
Dirty pictures0
Difficulties with diversity: reflections on representation in sandboxing studies0
“Local guys wanted”: homoerotic photography, censorship, and national belonging in apartheid South Africa – the case of Alternative Books (1981-1991)0
Multisensory approaches in migration research: reflections and pathways0
Where are the students?0
Delta voices of climate crisis: Community Digital Storytelling in Bangladesh and Vietnam0
‘It’s just a comic’ - Or is it? Addressing the past in Rutu Modan’sThe Property0
The silent Tibetan women and their visual exclusions in Pema Tseden’s ‘Tibetan Trilogy’0
Ring this bell if you want to save our planet0
Caution, Police!0
La photo numérique. Une force néolibérale0
Guest Editors’ introduction0
Self-portrait in the photo booth: self-representation in the selfie era, a Photo-based Educational Research Project0
‘There were days I felt empty’: care, affect, and graphic medicine0
To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes0
Black modernisms in the transatlantic world0
Home is where it happens: a visual essay on pandemic parenting for employed mothers0
Visibilising gentrification-induced displacement: a visual essay on the role of a socially and politically engaged photographic practice in housing activism0
The distinctive reality of schizophrenia in Swallow Me Whole and HOAX Psychosis Blues : exploring comics and their narrative space0
Colourised histories, reading digital/analogue photography and film archives now0
The Building as Screen: A History, Theory and Practice of Massive Media0
If_I_Had_Let_Me, 20220
‘The urge to know about the roots is just human, I guess’: Vietnamese Memories and Clément Baloup, an interview0
Shooting occupation: the sociology of visual representation0
Reclaiming vision: looking at Berger’s Ways of Seeing and NASA’s Blue Marble0
On reciprocity: expanding the dialogue between disciplines0
Visual studies now0
‘I don’t fit that stereotype’: participant photography and the visual (re)positioning of Black men0
‘I like working with my hands’: performative and embodied nostalgia among post-industrial blacksmiths0
Visual studies now. Visions of immunity0
Performativity and intersemiotic translation in contemporary art: the case of Hong Kong Atlas0
Performing for the camera: queer migration, sex work, and objecthood0
Survival and social support networks: visual narratives of labour market integration among highly skilled African immigrants in Quebec0
Homes that house precarity: a visual essay on capturing an eco-dystopian reality0
Rethinking fashion photography: reconstructing identities, decolonising bodies and resistance in postcolonial Morocco0
Parallel public: experimental art in late east Germany0
Svalbard Railway (Rachel Tanur 2022 1st Prize)0
Mapping beyond measure: Art, cartography and the space of global modernity0
Spirit in film: the work of James Ault0
Other Lines: visualising shifting horizons and atmospheric pollution along the Wirral Peninsula0
Mortevivum: photography and the politics of the visual Mortevivum: photography and the politics of the visual by Kimberly Juanita Brow0
The media swirl: Politics, audiovisuality, and aesthetics0
What is an inclusive city? Reconfiguring participation in planning with geospatial photovoice to unpack experiences of urban belonging among marginalised communities0
Revisiting the Kahn collection: multimodal artificial intelligence and visual patterns of presence and absence in the Archives de la Planète , 1909–19310
Gaming sexism: Gender and identity in the era of casual video games0
Correction0
Elaborated images as decolonial praxis0
Introduction: Visibility, images, Palestine/Israel0
Soldier snapshots – masculinity, play, and friendship in the everyday photographs of men in the American military0
Editorial0
Hand-drawn concept-mapping as a participatory visual method0
‘Breaking the chains’: reflections on the making of an ethnographic documentary on human rights violations against people with mental illness in Indonesia0
From bricoleur to carver – A methodological provocation from video ethnographic inquiry0
The ‘how’ of anthropology: participant observation in New Guinea and Newfoundland0
La sociologie filmique: Théories et pratiques0
Waste Not Want Not : art, recycling and community building in a Johannesburg creative collaboration0
Using cellphilm-making as advocacy: adolescent girls’ access to reproductive health services in primary health care facilities in rural northern KwaZulu-Natal0
Positive pathways towards authoritarian neoliberalism. On the artist collective GCC, democratic ideals and the United Arab Emirates’ ‘Vision 21’0
The hidden messages concealed in the 1970s stamp series ‘Landscapes of Israel’0
Addressing corruption through visual tools in India: the case of three civil society initiatives and their Facebook pages0
Political storytelling of Ekrem İmamoğlu on Instagram during 2019 Istanbul mayoral elections in Turkey0
‘All the good spots are already taken’: the visual properties of interior social sceneries0
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